More than 350 faculty from across Cornell come together at the Einaudi Center to imagine and conduct global research. Over 150 graduate and undergraduate students find resources, inspiration, and a global scholarly community through Einaudi's eight regional and thematic programs and minors.
Professor Emeritus, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology
William Fry is interested in plant disease epidemiology, population genetics studies, genetics, and host pathogen interactions using genomics approaches.
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Arnika Fuhrmann is an interdisciplinary scholar of Southeast Asia, working at the intersections of the region’s aesthetic and political modernities.
Regional Scholar
Chip Gagnon is a professor of politics at Ithaca College and a regional scholar at the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.
Economic Inequality and Governance Lead, Oxfam America
Nick Galasso is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow with a focus on an equitable post-pandemic economic recovery.
Senior Research Associate, Plant Biology
Maria A. Gandolfo is interested in paleobotany and plant anatomy and morphology with an emphasis on plant evolution and development, origin of angiosperms, cretaceous and tertiary floras, and paleoclimate of North and South America.
Associate Professor, Global Labor and Work
Candelaria Garay is an associate professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Her research interests include social policy and redistribution, labor and social movements, and…
Howard A. Newman Professor, History
Maria Cristina Garcia, a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, studies refugees, immigrants, and exiles. Her most recent book is The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America (Oxford University Press, 2017), a study of the actors and interests that have shaped US refugee…
Associate Professor, Public University of Navarra
Sergio García Magariño holds a PhD in sociology with an international mention and is a specialist in education and social development.
Associate Professor, Law
Maggie Gardner is a scholar of civil procedure and international law. She studies how to improve the efficiency and coordination of litigation involving foreign parties and is also interested in decision making and procedure from the perspective of U.S. district…
Research Fellow, SUNY-Buffalo
Jennifer Gaynor's research examines the constitution of maritime worlds, especially the spatial dimensions of the maritime, through the analysis of material practices, forms of representation, and institutional structures.
Professor, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Kifle Gebremedhin is an international professor of biological and environmental engineering.
Director, Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy
Richard Geddes researches the funding, financing, permitting, operation, and maintenance of heavy civil and social infrastructure, with a focus on the adoption of new technologies.
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Weiqing-Su George is a native speaker of Chinese, and has native fluency in English, advanced skills in Cantonese, and intermediate skills in Japanese. She is a member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the Chinese Language…
PhD, Regional Affiliate Scholar
Jennifer Germann has published widely on art and material culture and women, gender, and race in the eighteenth century.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering
Jacqueline Gerson is an aquatic biogeochemist. She is interested in understanding how human activity alters the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and contaminants across the watershed.
Professor, University of Rochester
Thomas Gibson’s first field research project concerned the relationship between the egalitarian and pacifist values of the Buid, an indigenous people inhabiting the highlands of Mindoro, Philippines, and the hierarchical and aggressive values of the Christian and…
Associate Professor of Practice, Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
Martin Gilbert is interested in pursuing health-related research that has direct relevance to the conservation of wildlife, particularly carnivores and scavengers. This includes approaches to understand how endangered species are impacted at a population level…
Senior Lecturer and Curator, Anthropology
Frederic W. Gleach is interested in native North America; Puerto Rico and Cuba; textual, material and visual culture; museums, heritage and tourism.
Edmund Ezra Day Professor and Chair
Shannon Gleeson is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and holds a joint appointment with the Brooks School of Public Policy. She earned her Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Near Eastern Studies
Geographic Research Area: Iran and the Middle East
Teaching/Research Interests: Democracy in Modern Iran, Russo-Iranian relations, constitutional movements in the Middle East, Mongol rule in the Middle East
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2027
Committee Chair/Advisor: Kaja McGowan
Discipline: History of Art
Primary Language:…
Professor Emeritus, South Asia Religions
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: South Asian religions, North Indian devotional traditions, and modern Indian religious movements
Professor Emeritus, City and Regional Planning
William Goldsmith is interested in U.S. cities, segregation, and poverty, and also on international urbanization and regional development. He has taught in Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Brazil.
Freeman Fellowship in Peace Studies Recipient 2023-24
Molly Goldstein is a rising junior in the School of Arts & Sciences, double majoring in Government and Near Eastern Studies and minoring in dance.
Assistant Professor, Global Development
Jenny Goldstein is interested in environmental conservation and development in the tropics and the role of scientific knowledge in climate change politics.
Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Studies
Seema Golestaneh studies the anthropology of Islam, contemporary Sufi and Shi'i thought in Iran, and literary cultures.
Associate Professor, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Miguel I. Gómez concentrates his research program on two interrelated areas under the umbrella of food marketing and distribution. The first is Food Value Chains Competitiveness and Sustainability.
Retired Associate Professor
Graduate Student
Degree: PhD, Government
Language: Hindi
Research Interests: climate change, development, electoral politics, identity, migration, political economy.
Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
Maria Goula is an associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture. Her research focuses on coastal tourism, especially coastal dynamics and the interpretation and reinvention of leisure patterns.
Graduate Student
Raashid is a PhD student in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, where he studies early Islamic law and history.
Associate Professor, Fiber Science & Apparel Design
Curator, Echols Collection
Before taking on the position of curator of the John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia, Green worked at Northern Illinois University Libraries as curator of the Donn V. Hart Southeast Asia Collection.
Professor, African History
Sandra Greene's research interests have ranged widely over the past 40 years, from the study of gender and ethnic relations in West Africa to the role that religious beliefs, warfare, and the experience of slavery have played in the lives of…
Jean McKelvey–Alice Grant Professor
Kati Griffith is a professor in the Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History in Cornell's ILR School and an associate member of the Cornell Law faculty. Her research focuses primarily on the intersection of immigration and workplace law and legal…
Tessler Family Professor of Digital and Information Law
James Grimmelmann studies how laws regulating software affects freedom, wealth, and power.
Managing Editor, SEAP/CMIP Publications
Professor, Africana Studies
Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui's research focuses on international relations theory, political theory, and African thought. Watch his faculty profile on video.
Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies
Vanessa Gubbins is an Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies in the Department of Romance Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University.
Professor Emeritus, Global Development
Douglas Gurak is interested in the process of human migration. He is currently involved in the investigation of processes shaping the internal migration of foreign-born persons in the United States to non-traditional immigration destinations.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2025
Committee chair/advisor: Marina Welker
Discipline: Anthropology
Primary Language: …
Professor Emeritus, Maternal and Child Nutrition
Jere Haas is interested in the functional consequences of iron deficiency on physical and cognitive performance, emphasis on the effects of moderate iron deficiency on various aspects of physical performance and behavior in children and young women and how measures…
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: Spring 2026
Committee Chair/Advisor: N/A
Discipline: Comparative Literature
Charles F. Rechlin Professor of Law
Valerie P. Hans conducts empirical studies of law and the courts and is one of the nation's leading authorities on the jury system. She studies the diverse forms of citizen participation in legal decision making in other countries.
Visiting Lecturer
Andrew Harding is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies. His research analyzes fiction written by ethnically Korean writers who were born and raised in Japan after World War II.
Professor, Entomology
Laura Harrington's research focuses on the biology, ecology, and behavior of mosquitoes that transmit human diseases. She became interested in global health issues and vector-borne diseases after living and working for several years in rural Thailand.
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Professor Emeritus, Hobart and William Smith College
Jack Harris studies men and masculinity in Vietnam. He has expanded into looking at the experience of Vietnamese as they go through massive economic and social change.
Professor Emerita, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Drew Harvell's research on host-pathogen interactions and the sustainability of marine ecosystems has taken her from the reefs of Mexico, Indonesia, and Hawaii to the Pacific Northwest.
Goldwin Smith Professor, Africana Studies
Professor Emeritus, Music
From 1980 until his retirement in 2011, Martin Hatch taught courses in music and musical traditions of Africa and Asia, elementary music theory, the history of American music, and ethnomusicology in Cornell University’s Department of Music and Department of Asian…
Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law and Professor of Economics
George Hay is one of the foremost antitrust authorities in the United States. Professor Hay teaches a variety of law and law-related courses in both the Law School and the College of Arts and Sciences and lectures on antitrust throughout the United States and…
Professor, Anthropology
John S. Henderson’s research interests center on early complex societies and how archaeology can explore the processes through which they develop. How do distinctions in status, wealth, and authority emerge within and between communities? Under what circumstances do…
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: Sri Lanka
Teaching/Research Interests: Teaching Sinhala as a second language, English-Sinhala translation
Adjunct Professor, Applied Economics and Policy
Robert William Herdt teaches applied economics and policy in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
Professor Emeritus, Government
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Agrarian political economy and agrarian reform; ethnicity and conflict; political ecology and development; and social conflicts around science and genetic…
Associate Professor, Microbiology
Ian Hewson is an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He is a biological oceanographer working on the impacts of viruses on aquatic biogeochemistry.
Associate Professor, Premodern Chinese History
TJ Hinrichs is a historian of Song era (960-1279 c.e.) Chinese medical, political, and cultural history.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028-29
Committee Chair/Advisor: Thomas Pepinsky
Discipline: Political Science
Primary Language:…
Adjunct Professor and Associate Director, IP-CALS academic program
Peter Hobbs is a crop scientist and agronomist, with a research, teaching, and extension focus on rice and wheat systems and conservation agriculture and rural development.
Geographic Research Area: South Asia, Latin America, and Africa…
Edward Cornell Professor of Law
Robert Hockett is cofounder of Cornell Research Academy of Development, Law, and Economics (CRADLE), one of Einaudi's interdisciplinary research teams.
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Saida Hodžić studies women’s rights activism, NGO advocacy, humanitarianism, and civic environmental activism.
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
David Holmberg advises all Cornell Fulbright applicants. Find out more about …
Adjunct Professor, Comparative Literature
Gail Holst-Warhaft is an adjunct professor in the Departments of Classics, Comparative Literature, and Near Eastern Studies. Her research interests include translation, modern Greek literature and music, Greek literature from antiquity to the present, water, and…
IES Graduate Fellow 2024-2025
Rachel Horner (she/her) is a PhD candidate in music and sound studies at Cornell University. She holds an MA in musicology and a BM in vocal music education and Spanish from Rutgers University.
Graduate Student
Labib is a Ph.D. student in the History of Architecture and Urban Development program. Prior to Cornell, Labib graduated from University of Pennsylvania in M.S. in Architecture program under the supervision of Dilip da Cunha and Anuradha Mathur. He received his B.…
IIE-SRF Fellow and Visiting Scholar
Sharif Hozoori’s area of research includes Afghanistan politics and foreign policy, identity politics, and cultural studies.
Director, Cornell China Center
Hua is an associate professor in the Department of Human Centered Design, a faculty member of the graduate fields of design and environmental analysis and real estate, and the…
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2025
Committee Chair/Advisor: Jessica Weiss Chen
Discipline: International Relations
Primary…
Graduate Student
Degree: PHD, Natural Resources
Language: Nepali
Research interests: drivers of human migration, social-ecological systems, South Asia relations, natural resource management and climate change, urban development, bioculture, and 21st-century land…
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2026-2027
Committee Chair/Advisor: Tom Pepinsky
Discipline: Government
Primary Countries: Indonesia…
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2025
Committee chair/advisor: Abby Cohn
Discipline: Linguistics
Primary Language: Khmer…
John Stambaugh Professor of History Emerita
Associate Professor, Literatures in English
Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of three poetry collections: Far District; House of Lords and Commons; and School of Instructions.
Visiting Senior Lecturer, SC Johnson College of Business
Elena Iankova's research interests include business, government, and civil society relations. Her book Eastern European Capitalism in the Making (Cambridge University Press, 2002) traces the metamorphosis of this relationship in the post-communist region…
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Sahoko Ichikawa is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Reppy Fellow 2023-24
Amber Ingwell is a second-year Master of Public Administration student at the Brooks School. Her concentration is Government, Politics, and Policy, with a certificate in Systems Thinking.
Domestic Affiliate Scholar
Vincent Intondi is a nuclear disarmament expert whose research focuses on the intersection of race and nuclear weapons. He was most recently a senior lecturer in the International Relations department at Webster University-Leiden in the Netherlands.…
IES Graduate Fellow 2023-2024
Stefan Ivanovski is a PhD student at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University studying the democratization of ownership and management of companies that are shaping the future of work, especially those that rely on remote work and cutting-…
Assistant Professor, International and Comparative Labor
Tristan Ivory's research is principally concerned with sub-Saharan African geographic, social, and economic mobility. As a 2020–21 Global Public Voices fellow, he collaborated with Guilherme Kenjy Chihaya Da Silva (Umeå University, Sweden…
Professor, Information Science
Steven Jackson is an associate professor in the Department of Information Science and Department of Science and Technology Studies. He conducts research in the areas of scientific collaboration, technology policy, democratic governance, and global development.…
Senior Lecturer, Thai
Ngampit Jagacinski received both her PhD and MA in Chinese Linguistics at Ohio State University. She has taught Thai language in the Department of Asian Studies since 2000.
Postdoctoral Associate, German Studies
Mari Jarris works across German- and Russian-language literature and theory, primarily in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their research areas include feminist and queer theory, transnational socialisms, and Critical Theory.
Graduate Student
Degree: PHD, Anthropology
Language: Urdu
Research Interests: Agriculture, apple cultivation and climate change in the Western Himalayas, and the social, environmental, and political-economic…
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028
Committee Chair/Advisor: Malte Ziewitz
Discipline: Science and Technology Studies
Senior Lecturer
Hyun-ho Joo’s research and teaching interests lie in modern Korean history from a comparative East Asian perspective, the history of Sino-Korean relations, cultural interactions between China and Korea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and…
Professor, Anthropology, American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
Kurt Jordan's research centers on the archaeology of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) peoples, emphasizing the settlement patterns, housing, and political economy of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Senecas.
J. Preston Levis Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Teresa Jordan is interested in climate and hydrological history of the Atacama Desert of Chile, and on finding more environmentally benign ways to meet society's needs for energy using subsurface resources.
Graduate student
Ekta Joshi is a PhD student in the field of applied economics and management. She is interested in studying how agriculture can be an effective instrument for economic development in developing countries.
Oxfam in Southern Africa Program Director
Dailes Judge's work focuses on building networks and strategic alliances with local movements, national and regional organizations. She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Professor of History, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Matt Kadane is the author of The Enlightenment and Original Sin (Chicago, 2024), The Watchful Clothier (Yale, 2013), and articles and essays that have appeared in The American Historical Review, Past and…
Just Economies Program and Policy Manager, Oxfam in Southern Africa
Mathias Burton Kafunda's work is in the policy and human rights sectors, focusing on long-term development and humanitarian program management. He is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Graduate Student
Barkha is a PhD student at the Department of Science and Technology Studies. In her current work Barkha examines the role of technology in changing the food system in India. She focuses on the packaged foods market to bring out the interaction between science,…
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2026
Committee chair/advisor: Chiara Formichi
Discipline: Asian Studies
T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs
Ravi Kanbur is well-known for his role in policy analysis and engagement in international development. He has served on the senior staff of the World Bank.
Program Manager
Rashmi Kanthi is the program manager for the Migrations Program. She brings over seven years of experience with Logistimo India, Safe Harvest, and Digital Green, specializing in program management, leadership, strategic partnerships, grants, budget management, and…
Assistant Professor, Design and Environmental Analysis
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao is an assistant professor in the College of Human Ecology and a field faculty in Information Science. She founded and directs the Hybrid Body Lab, which focuses on the invention of culturally-inspired materials, processes, and tools for…
Graduate Student
Shrey is a PhD candidate in Development Sociology, and is interested in the contemporary articulations of neoliberalism, Hindutva and the dispossession of marginalized groups in favor of capital-intensive development projects, with a regional focus on Gujarat.…
Associate Director, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Sabrina Karim is an associate professor in the Department of Government. Her research focuses on conflict and peace processes, particularly state building in the aftermath of civil war.
Geographic Research Area: Sub-Saharan Africa,…
Harold Bierman, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management
Andrew Karolyi's research focuses on investment management and international financial markets.
International Professor of Environmental and Indigenous Studies
Karim-Aly Kassam's research interests include human and environmental relations and indigenous ways of knowing.
